erode
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, erode sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3epode, erose
What it means
- verbbecome ground down or deteriorate
- verbremove soil or rock
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih0 r ow1 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
73 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abode
- bestowed
- bode
- borrowed
- code
- corrode
- crowed
- decode
- elbowed
- encode
- episode
- explode
- flowed
- glowed
- goad
- load
- microcode
- mode
- mowed
- node
- ode
- overflowed
- overload
- overrode
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- epode
- erose
- trode
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.